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A Blueprint for Living

I was not sober at my first AA meeting and I was not impressed either. I'm not sure if I had been drinking at my second AA meeting but I definitely drank after it.

Both times I went those meetings "to support someone else." You see, "she had a drinking problem", not me. She was my girlfriend at the time. A few years later, homeless, unemployed and blessed with the gift of desperation, I found myself back in the rooms of Alcoholic Anonymous.